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Alabaster Cove
Alabaster Cove, California
The thriving metropolis of Alabaster Cove, known simply as The Cove to the residents, population 3400 and some odd, sits in a small valley surrounded on three sides by jagged mountains and on the fourth by the Pacific ocean. Officially the city extends 20 some miles in any direction, but the livable few square miles of town and beach are an anomaly, a geographical fluke, in an area otherwise known for its inhospitable peaks and rocky coastline.
Eons of ancient violent volcanic and tectonic activity created the gorgeous but rugged and untameable mountain terrain surrounding the town. This unique topography presents engineering and financial challenges too huge to allow the little city to expand, creating a natural border. The mountain range goes on for hundreds of miles, the closest city, Yahatts, is inland a six hour drive away.
This unique isolation unknown to most other parts of the country, made the town a kind of throwback to California’s pioneering roots where people, cut off from the rest of the world, have to be self-sufficient to survive. The businesses in The Cove are more primitive and covered a broader spectrum of needs than would be able to endure in other cities of similar size.
Though extracurricular activities are the main source of external income, a self-contained economic and social system has evolved over the decades that, though a bit odd to an outsider, allowed its citizens to enjoy conveniences that otherwise they could not afford.
A lot of the businesses were planted and grew, not necessarily by the owner’s desire to be an entrepreneur, but to meet the needs of its inhabitants, and those needs that couldn’t take root and grow were simply done without. It was a rare case there were duplicates of any one type of business simply because there wasn’t the market to support it, hence the normal competition rules of economics didn’t apply.
Eons of ancient violent volcanic and tectonic activity created the gorgeous but rugged and untameable mountain terrain surrounding the town. This unique topography presents engineering and financial challenges too huge to allow the little city to expand, creating a natural border. The mountain range goes on for hundreds of miles, the closest city, Yahatts, is inland a six hour drive away.
This unique isolation unknown to most other parts of the country, made the town a kind of throwback to California’s pioneering roots where people, cut off from the rest of the world, have to be self-sufficient to survive. The businesses in The Cove are more primitive and covered a broader spectrum of needs than would be able to endure in other cities of similar size.
Though extracurricular activities are the main source of external income, a self-contained economic and social system has evolved over the decades that, though a bit odd to an outsider, allowed its citizens to enjoy conveniences that otherwise they could not afford.
A lot of the businesses were planted and grew, not necessarily by the owner’s desire to be an entrepreneur, but to meet the needs of its inhabitants, and those needs that couldn’t take root and grow were simply done without. It was a rare case there were duplicates of any one type of business simply because there wasn’t the market to support it, hence the normal competition rules of economics didn’t apply.